[Barcelona-Madrid] Operation of the High Court against the Catalan and Spanish libertarian movement (in Catalan below) #OperacionPandora to criminalise anarchist social movements.

[Barcelona-Madrid] #OperacionPandora by the neo fascist PP controlled High Court against the Catalan and Spanish libertarian movement

So far over 400 cops from 5.00am have arrested ten people in the city of Barcelona and the historic 25 yr occupied anarchist centre–La Casa de la Muntanya (The house on the mountain) the Anarchist workers centre of St Andreu barrio that of Anarchist Ateneo of Poble Sec neighbourhood as well as a dozen homes.
It’s an operation of the High Court against the Catalan and Spanish libertarian movement, against ”anarchist terrorists” who haven’t actually blown up or hurt anyone, but the raids justify the fascist style public order ‘gagging’ laws brought in just 2 days ago, against general opposition.

AT KASA DE LA MUNTANYA 2 SMALL KIDS WERE WOKEN AT GUNPOINT, ELSEWHERE AN OLD FOLKS CENTRE WAS RAIDED BY MISTAKE. AT LEAST 16 DIFFERENT PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS HAVE BEEN CALLED FOR THE EVENING 16TH DECEMBER, WITH SOLIDARITY FAR BEYOND THE ANARCHIST AND OCCUPIER MOVEMENTS.

1st solidarity demo – Barcelona

Some of the Protest demos already taking place

Further Solidarity Demos are being planned

The arrested are well known community activists, even including a fireman, and are in no way terrorists, indeed except for some cash dispensers there has been no ”terrorist” campaign in Catalunya, due to general agreement stemming fromn the 15M social movement and the failure of Basque insurgency. The Spanish State is armed with a huge ”anti terror” apparatus and laws, used to suppress Basque nationalism, and now tuyrned against innocent anarchists.

All the arrested have apparently been carted off to Madrid 300 miles away.

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Reports from La Directa magazine (from Catalan via Google so…)

At a quarter past five in the morning, 400 Mossos d’Esquadra (catalan local police) mobilized to carry out an operation against the anarchist movement. Fulfilling orders of the Spanish National Court, in an operation ordered by his judge Javier Gómez Bermñudez, agents have raided Kasa Mountain, historical squat in Barcelona which this year celebrates 25 years of activity. The Mossos have busted the main entrance of the house to access it, and at that time, a police helicopter was located over the building illuminating it with a strong focus.
As learned by La Directa twenty inhabitants of the house have been in time to lock themselves in the gym to stay on the lookout. At the time of the police attack, the building had two children five and six years. The agents have inspected the entire house and have confiscated mobile phones, laptops and all computer devices in their path.

In addition agents have confiscated all types of documents, while numerous tools and home electrical workshop have searched in detail the toys children. By now, the police have allowed to leave the building two adults and two children, but the other people who were sleeping inside the house before the arrival of police, are still held inside. So far, officials have searched in detail only five rooms, Kasa Mountain is huge, which suggests that the registration will last for many hours.Meanwhile, fifty people have cut for half an hour Travessera de Dalt in Barcelona, in a spontaneous action in solidarity with the squat until the riot agents dispersed them minutes after eight o’clock. Subsequently the solidarity group moved to the Plaza Lesseps where they held a picket.

From the outside of the house, in the neighborhood of Gracia, were heard several firecrackers and you could see in the dark the light of several torches inside the building.

The police operation are the agents of the Information Division of the Mossos d’Esquadra, accompanied by a large number of members of the Mobile Brigade, among other things, make a perimeter exclusion zone that prevents all approach to the house. The Riot Police carried shotguns shells, Foam, and identify approaches by the press to cover the news.

Several neighboring reports of police deployed there: at least fifteen armoured vehicles and vans on the street.

Operation ordered by the High Court

So far fourteen arrests have been confirmed (later it seems only 11) in the city of Barcelona .. in the Nou Barris two, four more in Sant Andreu, two in Poble Sec and two in Gracia. The other four were made in other parts of Catalonia still to be confirmed. One of the arrests were made by a hooded undercover agents in a Fire Station in the city. The police have taken a fireman handcuffed to his home in the Sant Andreu to search the property.

The last arrest might have a home next to the Plaza del Sol Vila de Gràcia, where the Mossos Police carry out a raid right now. Aside from Kasa Mountain, there have been confirmed several more searches. In the district of St. Andrew the Catalan police have registered Libertarian Athenaeum (Anarchist Workers Centre), while in Poble Sec they have done the same at the Ateneo Anarchist.

It has also been confirmed a raid on a home located in Villefranche de Gracia, two in Nou Barris and in Sant Andreu neighbourhood at least two more.

The press section of the Autonomous Police has issued a press release which attributes the assault on Kasa de la Muntanya in a large police operation under the “Pandora case.” In the document the Mossos claim that the High Court has ordered the operation, which is still underway and is being carried out in various towns in Catalonia and Madrid.

According to its target text would “disrupt a terrorist organization of the anarchist character which has carried out several attacks with explosives.” Finally, it is stated that several persons arrested for the crime of “belong to a criminal organization for anarchist terrorist purposes.”… second assault on Kasa de la Muntanya

This is not the first time a police have smashed into the interior of the Kasa Mountain. On 18 July 2001, the then representative of the Spanish government in Barcelona, Julia Garcia Valdecasas, ordered the evacuation of the building and sent the Spanish National RiotPolice to the squat, they justified it saying that from the inside of the property assaults were taking place against the agents who wetre evicting the neighbouring squat centre, Can Nyoka, located just in front of the Kasa Mountain. That operation ended in nothing because the police court of Barcelona ordered the withdrawal of agents considering that it was an illegal eviction.

Subsequently, were initiated proceedings against the head of the riot Barcelona, Silverio Blanco, accusing him of theft and illegal eviction. The cause was eventually filed…